Exploring new ICT tools to improve teaching and learning

Nowadays ICT tools such as apps and web platforms are the key to keep students engaged and motivated and to produce good outcomes, and projects which are scalable, fit to this changing world.

The new edition of the course “Integrating ICT and new technologies into teaching and education​” took place in Palermo from 26/06/2023 to 30/06/2023. The participants: Samuel, Maria, Louise, Riccardo, Emily, Jacqueline, Elaine and Graziella all came from Malta, specifically from G.F. Abela University of Malta Junior College.

During this course, they learnt how to use different ICT tools and had some time to think about how to use them according to their subjects.
First of all, they learned how to use a virtual whiteboard for brainstorming activities and for presentations.

Later, they had the time to focus on the creation of stunning visual contents and to do some practical work also in designing their own presentations.

The following days, they learned how to engage students through gamification, with the help of three ICT tools suited for interactive games and quizzes. They were able to experiment with the creation of games and quizzes and also to take part in some of them.

During the second part of the week, they learnt more about the tools used to edit videos and how to use them to start a lesson or to give engaging homework. They also had time to do practical activities on one of this tools and to focus more on the creation of visual contents through a very popular web tool.

The last part of the training course was used to learn something on tools used in order to create a website or blog and on additional tools that can be useful in education.

A lot of time was spent for collaboration and sharing of opinions on the different tools and on best teaching practices.

The participants were extremely kind, motivated, and they created some excellent works during this week.

We are certain that they will put into good use the new knowledge of interactive learning as well as the new set of tools used during the week of the training course. No doubt about this.
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Discover more about this course here.